{"nrhp_refnum":"99000693","name":"Brown-Bryson Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1760 Siloam-Veazey Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Siloam","county":"Greene County","state":"GA","lat":33.52779523950005,"lon":-83.10336819445989,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 168-acre farm district one mile southwest of Siloam in Greene County, Georgia, centered on a Gothic Revival cottage built in 1877 by builder Jim Bryson for Thomas Tillery Brown, with an outbuilding complex, pastures and woodland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a rare, intact example of a Gothic Revival rural dwelling and outbuilding complex, with only 27 of 117 surveyed Gothic Revival cottages in Georgia in a rural agricultural setting. It also cites an intact ornamental yard and 'landscape of work' tied to Downing's ideas. It is further significant as a Piedmont farm operated continuously for over 120 years, producing cotton and row crops with tenant labor.","narrative":"Brown-Bryson Farm is a 168-acre working farm about a mile southwest of Siloam in Greene County, Georgia. Its centerpiece is a one-and-one-half-story Gothic Revival cottage completed in 1877 for lawyer and cotton farmer Thomas Tillery Brown and his wife, Eliza Ann. Builder Jim Bryson replaced an earlier house of about 1870 that burned in 1873 or 1874, and the chimneys are believed to have survived the fire. The house has lacy bargeboard, sawn brackets, window hoods and heart-pine interiors. Behind it, a smokehouse, tenant houses, barns, a shed, a privy and a well house form a landscape of work, while a picket fence and ornate gate frame an ornamental front yard. Fields and pastures show evidence of historic terracing. The property is significant for its rare rural Gothic Revival design, its intact landscape, and more than a century of continuous farming, from cotton and row crops worked by tenants to cattle and hay. The Brown-Bryson family held it until 1964.","period_of_significance":"C. 1870-1948","architect_builder":"Jim Bryson","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still a working farm with the house in use; owners grow hay and raise livestock, and historic outbuildings have been repaired and stabilized.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.901708-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/99000693.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208472","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-Bryson_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55606026"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/greene-county/brown-bryson-farm-99000693/"}